> Why would you want to run 100 simultaneous bridges? I would imagine that > most people might want between one and three bridges. Is your environment > very specific?
Yes, as I said before, I run network simulations. Those emulations emulate Windows, Linux, Cisco Routers, Switches, Firewalls, everything you could imagine.... I'm Network Specialist, so I do this to understand networking better. (Another limitation of VirtualBox - is only 4 NICs per VM - which is simply not enough for Enterprise Firewall setups - but VPC has this limitation too, so I don't speak about this problem too loudly now...) I understand concepts of networking very well, including the scalability requirements from emulators. Think that today you can bridge just single connection on Windows. That's very bad. =================================================================== But not only complex things aren't possible, but easy things like Bridging is way more complex to setup under VBox than VPC. This should NOT be like that. The new solution must be both easy to use for normal users *and* be scaleble for the advanced users to take advantage of it. =================================================================== The current solution is both non-easy for normal people to use (casual users), *and* is very limited and feature-lacking from professional point-of-view. PCap is a solution that is scaleble. Alternatively, Windows-specific drivers must be written to support bridging on that platformm but this is much more complex task IMHO (and not cross-platform). PCap solution is *both* cross-platform, easy to understand, and will work well. -Alexey _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
